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Geotechnical Engineer Opportunity

Larson Design Group (LDG) is an award-winning, employee-owned Architecture, Engineering, and Consulting Firm. Guided by our core values, we're expanding our team, opening new offices, and adding new offerings to provide responsive, innovative solutions to clients nationwide.

Being 100% employee-owned directly impacts our culture : it drives our decision-making, motivates our teams, increases our productivity, improves retention, and contributes to the future success of our company. Our culture is one where we work hard for our clients and for each other and we have fun collaborating, sharing experience and expertise, and learning along the way. We're passionate about delivering exceptional quality, elevating client relationships, enriching the careers and lives of our employee owners, and enhancing the communities where we live and serve.

At LDG, we strive to create an organization where people want to work. We offer a flexible work environment, paid training for required licensures, competitive benefits, bonus plans, and a company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) while supporting your professional and personal growth.

Your Opportunity + Impact

The Geotechnical Engineer functions as a technical leader in association with other Geotech professionals and is required to have a Professional Engineer (PE) license and commensurate work experience. This position will work with a team of geologists and other engineers to undertake a full range of geotechnical investigations and reporting. The Geotechnical Engineer will work in a collaborative atmosphere to both execute existing work as well as grow the service line. The position will coordinate overall design activities, have increased client interactions, and will be responsible for additional Quality Assurance and Quality Control duties to help ensure the final product meets the technical requirements and goals of the client.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs independent planning and design tasks, reviews work of others, prepares design documents and reports, and successfully delivers projects to completion.
• Has experience with technically complex projects.
• Possesses knowledge of codes and standards applicable to design of projects.
• Maintains collaborative inter-departmental and cross functional working relationships with members of the project team.
• Performs final QA / QC review of project submissions.
• Develops schedules, technical proposals, and labor hour estimates.
• Works closely with clients and project teams to effectively describe and deliver scope of work.
• Performs field, sample collection, and laboratory coordination tasks as needed.
• Supervises field and junior staff on larger projects as directed.
• Promotes, utilizes, and supports quality assurance and quality control processes to improve the quality of deliverables and reduce design errors & omissions.
• Performs and checks design calculations, technical specifications, and prepares cost estimates.
• Performs calculations such as stability analysis, bearing capacity, settlement, pile / drilled shaft capacity, micro-pile design, soil nail design, etc. with minimal oversight.
• Develops and maintains design budgets for routine scopes of work.

Education and Experience

EEO Statement

Larson Design Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.